Mill Creek Elementary School

Mill Creek Elementary School operates as a sizable elementary school in Madison, Alabama, operated by Madison City. Current enrollment sits at 965 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 101% above the state mean of about 480.

Within Madison City, which oversees 13 schools and 13,046 students, Mill Creek Elementary School is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Mill Creek Elementary School reports that the most-represented group is White (54%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 18% Black, 10% Hispanic, 9% Asian, 8% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 63% White, putting the school's mix visibly less White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 59 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.3:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.0:1, putting Mill Creek Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 25% of students at Mill Creek Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is lower than Madison County's rate of about 41%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Mill Creek Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 66.1%; this one delivers 72.2%.

In the broader community, census data for Madison County shows the typical household earns roughly $86,499 per year, roughly 46% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. In all, Madison County runs 89 public schools (combined enrollment of about 55,800 students), of which Mill Creek Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: James Clemens High School, around 1.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Mill Creek Elementary School comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 36.2%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count showed little movement: 961 students in 2018 compared to 965 in 2025. The White share of enrollment fell from 62% to 54% over that span.

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